Hi Partick
I finally got VM issues sorted out and started the compile again. I get a new
error when running armmake
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armv7-unknown-bitrig1.0-gnueabihf-clang -O3 -pipe
-Werror-implicit-function-declaration -I/home/hrishi/src/sbin/wsconsctl -I. -c
/home/hrishi/src/sbin/wsconsctl/keysym.c
/home/hrishi/src/sbin/wsconsctl/keysym.c:38:10: fatal error: 'keysym.h' file not
found
#include "keysym.h"
^
1 error generated.
*** Error 1 in sbin/wsconsctl (<sys.mk>:101 'keysym.o')
*** Error 1 in sbin (<bsd.subdir.mk>:48 'all')
*** Error 1 in /home/hrishi/src (<bsd.subdir.mk>:48 'all')
$ ls sbin/wsconsctl/
Makefile keysym.c mkkeysym.sh util.c wsconsctl.h
display.c map_parse.y mouse.c wsconsctl.8
keyboard.c map_scan.l obj.amd64.armv7 wsconsctl.c
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I checked that for file keysym.h and it does not exist in the bitrig checkout
Thanks
Hrishi
On 11-Jan-2015, at 9:20 pm, Patrick Wildt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> Am 11.01.2015 um 12:18 schrieb Hrishikesh Murukkathampoondi
>> <[email protected]>:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I would like to use Bitrig on an ARM board - Freescale iMX6Q SABRE Board for
>> Smart Devices. Patrick helped quite a bit and though we could boot the
>> kernel we could not get networking going.
>>
>>
>> I have in the (distant) past been comfortable tinkering with Linux source on
>> x86 but BSDs and cross compiling is unfamiliar to me. Any pointers would
>> help a lot:
>>
>> My only machine (other than the development board) is a Mac running OS X.
>> Would it be possible to compile Bitrig source on OS X ?
>
> Probably not. The clang would need to be able to target bitrig… There are
> also some scripts that might not work as expected… Dunno...
>
>>
>> If that is not possible, I can perhaps do this on a virtual machine. I have
>> Bitrig 1.0 installed and running on a Parallels VM. Unfortunately Parallels
>> does not allow me to access the physical devices of my machine when running
>> Bitrig (works when Parallels is running Linux). Anyone else with a similar
>> set up able to transfer files from the Bitrig VM to host?
>
> You could try sshfs maybe. Otherwise I don’t know.
>
>>
>> Are there instructions on how to cross compile Bitrig to ARM?
>
> Yeah, in /usr/src/Makefile.cross.
>
> You need a cross-compile-able binutils, which you can get from packages or
> ports. In our release 1.0, there’s
> bitrig-binutils-armcross-2.24p3-armcross.tgz.
>
> After that is installed, run
> cd /usr/src && sudo TARGET=armv7 make -f Makefile.cross cross-tools
>
> This sets up the cross-toolchain. Optionally you can use -j4 or so to speed
> up the build.
>
> To compile a kernel, this script might help:
> https://gist.github.com/Bluerise/0c272187af957412baa3
>
> Then you can run
> cd /usr/src/sys/arch/armv7/conf && config GENERIC
> cd /usr/src/sys/arch/armv7/compile && armmake bsd.IMX.umg
> to compile the kernel, which can be directly booted from u-boot.
>
>>
>> To boot on ARM I think I would have to build a rootfs of some kind - that
>> includes uboot and the kernel? Any pointers on how to construct one of those
>> would be very helpful
>
> The miniroot? Well, our build infrastructure automatically creates those. The
> magic is done in /usr/src/distrib/armv7/miniroot/.
>
> You can also extract a ramdisk from an existing snapshot and change it
> according to your needs.
>
>>
>> Thank you
>> Hrishi
>
>
